Today's Thought Gem—October

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Vern wrote:  Today, 15 October is “Seek no unearned recognition and crave no undeserved sympathy” a suggested match would be:

The God-conscious mortal

is certain of salvation;

he is unafraid of life;

he is honest and consistent

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 16 October is “If your brother sins against you, go to him with tact and patience show him his fault. And do all this between you and him alone” a suggested match would be:

If he will listen to you,

then have you won

your brother

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 17 October is “A loving father does not frighten his children into yielding obedience to his just requirements” a suggested match would be:

Always respect

the personality of man.

Never should a righteous cause

be promoted by force;

spiritual victories can be won

only by spiritual power

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 18 October is “The world is filled with hungry souls who famish in the very presence of the bread of life, men die searching for the very God who lives within them” a suggested match would be:

Men seek for the treasures

of the kingdom with yearning hearts

and weary feet when they are

all within the immediate grasp of living faith

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 19 October is “Faith is to religion what sails are to a ship, it is an addition of power, not an added burden of life” a suggested match would be:

Men seek for the treasures

of the kingdom with yearning hearts

and weary feet when they are

all within the immediate grasp

of living faith

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 20 October is “Mature men view immature folks with the love and consideration that parents bear their children” a suggested match would be:

Discouragement, worry,

and indolence are positive evidence

of moral immaturity

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 21 October is “Only a brave person is willing honestly to admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers” a suggested match would be:

Successful living is

nothing more or less than

the art of the mastery of

dependable techniques

for solving common problems

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 22 October is “The solution of life problems requires courage and sincerity. Only honest and brave individuals are able to follow valiantly through the perplexing and confusing maze of living to where the logic of a fearless mind may lead” a suggested match would be:

And this emancipation of

the mind and soul can never be effected

without the driving power of

an intelligent enthusiasm

which borders on religious zeal

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 23 October is “Marriage, with its manifold relations, is best designed to draw forth those precious impulses and those higher motives which are indispensable to the development of a strong character” a suggested match would be:

And such a matchless

community of relationship,

man and woman in the fond embrace

of the highest ideals of time,

is so valuable and satisfying an experience

that it is worth any price, any sacrifice,

requisite for its possession

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 24 October is “Fear, envy, and conceit can be prevented only by intimate contact with other minds” a suggested match would be:

Thus does the mind of one

augment its spiritual values

by gaining much of the insight of the other.

In this way men enrich the soul

by pooling their respective spiritual possessions.

Likewise, in this same way,

man is enabled to avoid that ever-present tendency

to fall victim to distortion of vision,

prejudice of viewpoint, and narrowness of judgment

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 25 October is “Isolation tends to exhaust the energy charge of the soul” a suggested match would be:

There is positive strength

in the knowledge that you live

for the welfare of others,

and that these others likewise

live for your welfare and advancement.

Man languishes in isolation

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 26 October is “Association with one’s fellows is essential to the renewal of the zeal for life and is indispensable to the maintenance of courage to fight those battles consequent upon the ascent to the higher levels of human living” a suggested match would be:

Personality association and

mutual affection is an efficient

insurance against evil

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 27 October is “Friendship enhances the joys and glorifies the triumphs of life” a suggested match would be:

One of the crowning glories

of human friendship is

this power and possibility

of the mutual stimulation

of the imagination

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 28 October is “Loving and intimate human associations tend to rob suffering of its sorrow and hardship much of its bitterness” a suggested match would be:

Association does not transmute

evil into righteousness, but it does

aid in greatly lessening the sting.

Said your Master,

“Happy are they who mourn” — if a friend

is at hand to comfort

 

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[Vern]

Vern wrote:  Today, 29 October is “The presence of a friend enhances all beauty and exalts every goodness” a suggested match would be:

Great spiritual power

is inherent in the consciousness

of wholehearted devotion

to a common cause,

mutual loyalty to a cosmic Deity

 

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